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Security Update 2020-004

Should I see this for a considerably long time?

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NB: solved itself
 
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I just updated to Mojave 10.14.6 from 10.14.4 on my 2017 iMac. Upgrade went smoothly in about 20 minutes.

BUT, the main reason I was upgrading is that I was running Safari 12.1.0 and was having some issues with it and wanted the latest version of Safari. I thought I would get Safari 13.1.2 with this update since it was dated 15 July 2020.

After the update, Safari is now 12.1.2. Better than 12.1.0 but not what I was expecting. Were my expectations wrong? Is 12.1.2 the latest version I can use? If now, how do I get 13.1.2 since Apple only seems to upgrade Safari as part of the OS upgrades?

EDIT: oops - Just now saw that the Safari 13.1.2 update shows up as a separate update after the install of 10.14.6.
Just now downloaded and installed it, so I'm good to go!
 
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HenryAZ said:
You can obtain the Safari update in .pkg format by using Terminal and the softwareupdate utility. softwareupdate -d "pkg name" downloads it only, and you will find it in /Library/Updates. Then use the .pkg file for multiple Mojave machines. You will need to run softwareupdate -l first to get the exact name of the file to use as the target to download. Best to use quotes around the target name.
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Great tip! Thank you! 👍👍

Camelia
 
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Installed the update a week ago (rMBP early 2015). Wanted to use it for some time before making a judgement.
-> everything is fine 👍
 
I installed this on my iMac Pro and I've had a lot of issues with it. I think related to GPU if I had a guess. When I boot it would hang the entire system for a few minutes then randomly free everything. I ended up going into recovery mode and re-installing macos (which does a full install and removes the security update. Everything is great again and I will sadly just ignore that security update until they release a fix.
 
aaronraimist said:
I am also experiencing these freezes on my 2010 Mac Pro since the security update. I get several freezes each day, each lasting a minute or two. I have noticed a bunch of logs like this in system.log:

Code: 
Jul 24 16:38:04 Sun com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.tccd.system[2066]): Service exited due to SIGABRT
Jul 24 16:38:04 Sun com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.tccd.system[37551]): Service exited due to SIGABRT
Jul 24 16:38:04 Sun com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.tccd.system[37552]): Service exited due to SIGABRT
Jul 24 16:38:04 Sun com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.tccd.system): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
Jul 24 16:38:14 Sun com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.tccd.system[37556]): Service exited due to SIGABRT
Jul 24 16:38:14 Sun com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.tccd.system): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
Jul 24 16:38:24 Sun com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.tccd.system[37558]): Service exited due to SIGABRT
which seem to coincide with the timing of the freeze.

I have over 160 crash logs for the tccd process and they start on July 15th which was the day the update was released. Anyone else noticing something similar?
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I experience also the same behavior, freezing while com.apple.tccd.system respawn (on a MacBook Pro 15", 2016). It seemed to appear since the security upgrade.
 
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I went back to the security update 2020-002 when I was having video graphics problems. I have updated my Safari 13.1.2. Maybe when I feel like backing up everything I might try installing a later security update.
 
Nice. I guess they decided to make Mojave glitchy so catacrap “appears better”

Just like how they disabled ios7 transparency in the ipad 2 as the ipad 3 couldn’t run it. (The mini with the same A5 ran it fine as with a jailbroken ipad 2)
 
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jompo said:
I experience also the same behavior, freezing while com.apple.tccd.system respawn (on a MacBook Pro 15", 2016). It seemed to appear since the security upgrade.
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After a rather long inquiery by disabling extensions, I found that Dropbox was guilty (i.e. it has problem with the 2020-04 Mojave update). I upgrade Dropbox application to the version 102.4.431 and no more com.apple.tccd.system respawns in my log, and no more freeze at session startup (or Dropbox launching).;)
 
Saw this pinwheeling yesterday. System log was filled at the time with the com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.tccd.system) errors. Seemed to coincide with an AV update coming through.
 
This last update 04 sucks...It.crashed my HS with my older Quadro Graphic cards and had to switch to AMD card. Now. I tried to update to Mojave and it is slow as a slug to boot up so I carboned back to HS before the update and runs smoothly. I'm now going to wait longer to ever add anymore security updates from Apple and just run my computer off the grid till I get reassured that Apple isn't messing around anymore with people who still run Nvidia cards. Too many glitches that cost me time and money.
 
Benz63amg said:
So is this 004 update to be avoided?
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Avoid only if you're one of the ones (like me) to get the UI freeze/tccd problem -- ha ha!

At each UI freeze I'd get lots of messages about tccd in the system.log, and more tccd....crash files in Console.app.
I was only able to get rid of the problem by re-installing macOS from my recovery partition, which removed this security update. No more tccd crashes and no more UI freezes.

Others' suggestions didn't work for me -- someone mentioned removing some audio software (UAD?) which I don't have, and someone else mentioned updating Dropbox, which mine was already up to date. Late 2015 iMac, 10.14.6.
 
Brian33 said:
Avoid only if you're one of the ones (like me) to get the UI freeze/tccd problem -- ha ha!

At each UI freeze I'd get lots of messages about tccd in the system.log, and more tccd....crash files in Console.app.
I was only able to get rid of the problem by re-installing macOS from my recovery partition, which removed this security update. No more tccd crashes and no more UI freezes.

Others' suggestions didn't work for me -- someone mentioned removing some audio software (UAD?) which I don't have, and someone else mentioned updating Dropbox, which mine was already up to date. Late 2015 iMac, 10.14.6.
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Thats insane, id certainly avoid this update then. Thank you for the suggestion. last time i want to do now is reinstall my MacOS installation. i have the 2019 iMac 27 inch iMac, 9th Gen i5, 2TB Fusion Drive and 40GB RAM. What mac do you have?
 
Benz63amg said:
Thats insane, id certainly avoid this update then. Thank you for the suggestion. last time i want to do now is reinstall my MacOS installation. i have the 2019 iMac 27 inch iMac, 9th Gen i5, 2TB Fusion Drive and 40GB RAM. What mac do you have?
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I have a 27" Late 2015 iMac, with the original Apple 512 GB SS storage and 8 GB RAM.

The re-install wasn't as bad as it sounds, as I booted from Recovery and re-installed macOS "over the top" of what was already on the drive -- so I didn't have to restore user accounts, applications, data, etc. Of course I made sure I had good backups, first!

I tried uninstalling various software first, including everything that had kernel extenstions (most people won't have these), like VirtualBox, Little Snitch, and NTFS for Mac. I also reset my Privacy pane in System Preferences because the TCC system involves those settings, according to my research. But nothing eliminated the problem. Now it seems I must run without the latest security fixes, which I am unhappy about...
 
Brian33 said:
I have a 27" Late 2015 iMac, with the original Apple 512 GB SS storage and 8 GB RAM.

The re-install wasn't as bad as it sounds, as I booted from Recovery and re-installed macOS "over the top" of what was already on the drive -- so I didn't have to restore user accounts, applications, data, etc. Of course I made sure I had good backups, first!

I tried uninstalling various software first, including everything that had kernel extenstions (most people won't have these), like VirtualBox, Little Snitch, and NTFS for Mac. I also reset my Privacy pane in System Preferences because the TCC system involves those settings, according to my research. But nothing eliminated the problem. Now it seems I must run without the latest security fixes, which I am unhappy about...
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Theres also a supplemental update that is available for Mojave that i am hesitant in installing, My 2019 iMac has been rock solid except for having difficulty waking up from sleep after being asleep for a long period of time (usually 24 Hours or so), it requires me to click the power button on the back of the iMac to wake it up from sleep and it has been exhibiting this behavior since i purchased it. Do you think the Mojave supplemental update or the security update could possibly fix this specific annoyance or most likely has nothing to do with? I've gotten used to this sleep behavior on my iMac but perhaps Apple silently fixed in with one of these updates
 
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I have a few computers exhibiting the freezing issue on restart, checked Dropbox and it's on 103.x so its up to date, not sure what else it could be but all of this started after the 004 update.
 
It seems that a few posters in this thread experienced problems similar to mine with Security Update 2020-004: boot-time and/or periodic UI "freezes", tccd process crashes, tccd errors and respawns shown in system.log.

Have any of you been brave enough to try Mojave Security Updtate 2020-005? Did it cause the tccd/UI freeze problems again or is it OK?
 
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